Studies were carried out into the amount of pollution ingested by cyclists and pedestrians in comparison to drivers. The study had initially expected to show that pedestrians and cyclists were being unduly affected by air pollution caused by road traffic. What the studies did show that pedestrians and cyclists did ingest more large particulate pollution, occupants of motor vehicles were shown to ingest larger volumes of the small particulate pollution. The smaller particulate pollution is the more harmful and more likely to cause cardiac and respiratory disorders. Tests were conducted on modern vehicles with closed windows so the majority of the pollution was coming through the air filter.

If enough of the particulate matter in pepper spray is small enough, it's going to pass through an air filter. Same as when you can tell someone has run over a skunk from several miles downwind while driving along a highway.

Do you know what was the year, make, and model of the following car? (So I can get the right type of filter from work)

Also, what kind of pepper spray did the instructor use?

I don't know, but what he teaches is to select OC unblended with CN or CS, in an alcohol carrier. No idea whatever about the car. Uhh, how could you do that experiment safely? Closed course? Driver in PPE and passenger serving as canary while operating a driving simulator?

I should really pay attention. I totally missed this incident back in 2011. UC Davis

All I remember seeing at the time was people showing the cops to be just assholes, they did their duty IMHO.

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All I remember seeing at the time was people showing the cops to be just assholes, they did their duty IMHO.

You say that as if they could not do both at the same time. The narrative with which the page you linked is running seems to be that as long as you warn people ahead of time that you are going to employ violence against them, or spray them with a not-intentionally-lethal chemical weapon, that makes it OK.

As for the "the protesters were told they were breaking the law" line, I'd have to say "Duh! Of course they were; isn't that the whole point?!" The laws were made and enforced by the power-structures against which the protesters were protesting! From at least the days of the Riot Act of 1714 it has been routine to criminalise protest, so drawing attention to the illegality of the UC Davis protest is rather like saying that the sea is wet and salty.

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So today, I bought Skyrim for PC, and learned things have changed since the good old Roller Coaster Tycoon days. Have to make a Steam account, straight up download the game. I bought the discs because my internet is too shit to deal with in the first place. Harrumph. Ten plus hours left of download...

Dark Crystal has gelflings, which are entirely different. And only girls have wings.

I knew that. I was rewatching the first six episodes of Chuck, and a character makes that mistake. I always knew that in the movie they're 'Gelflings,' but that characters' defining character (to this point) is that he's a bit of an immature idiot. I didn't realize until today that a 'gelding' is an actual thing.

I learned about the Copenhagen interpretation of ethics: how interacting with a problem will make you seem complicit in it. I never really thought about this before, but that does seem pretty irrational.

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I just got the image of a midwife and a woman giving birth swinging towards each other on a trapeze - when they meet, the midwife pulls the baby out. The knife juggler is standing on the floor and cuts the umbilical cord with a a knifethrow.

So today, I bought Skyrim for PC, and learned things have changed since the good old Roller Coaster Tycoon days. Have to make a Steam account, straight up download the game. I bought the discs because my internet is too shit to deal with in the first place. Harrumph. Ten plus hours left of download...

So today, I bought Skyrim for PC, and learned things have changed since the good old Roller Coaster Tycoon days. Have to make a Steam account, straight up download the game. I bought the discs because my internet is too shit to deal with in the first place. Harrumph. Ten plus hours left of download...

Yes, it does prompt you to download the game when you activate the game's key but if you run setup from the disc after activation it installs the whole game from the disc and only has to download patches. Great that we can keep talking about this three months later.

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I just got the image of a midwife and a woman giving birth swinging towards each other on a trapeze - when they meet, the midwife pulls the baby out. The knife juggler is standing on the floor and cuts the umbilical cord with a a knifethrow.

Yes, it does prompt you to download the game when you activate the game's key but if you run setup from the disc after activation it installs the whole game from the disc and only has to download patches. Great that we can keep talking about this three months later.

So helpful, right?

At least now, when Fallout 4 comes out, I'll know how to install from disc

Today I learned that you are not supposed to walk in front of Muslim people while they are praying. If they have an object, like a bag, in front of them, you can walk in front of that but not between the object and the person. Still seems more polite to walk behind them if possible.

You see, there are still faint glimmers of civilization left in this barbaric slaughterhouse that was once known as humanity. Indeed that's what we provide in our own modest, humble, insignificant... oh, fuck it. - M. Gustave